Why Use A Mix Of Plants To Screen The Garden For Privacy

Why Use a Mix of Plants to Screen the Garden - In this video I go over all the reasons to use many different varieties plants to create a screen rather than using just variety.
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[@InesOL2]

Viburnums are amazing for screening sadly people don’t use them as much!

[@jennifersandahl4603]

This is exactly what I did and have future plans for on a problematic side of my property! I didn’t want soldiers in a row. I wanted a lush, layered, park like screen that didn’t look like it was planted to hide the neighbor’s house and deck. I love your videos and info! I’m on the other side of the country but have just about the same zone so it’s very helpful for getting an eye on mature plants I might like. 🌸

[@stephaniesharkey3538]

We had a neighbor in our old neighborhood that had horses in a large field. Sadly they had to protect them from people walking by! First a berm was built them a mix of evergreens and deciduous trees and shrubs . It came out beautiful !

[@kristinastoltzfus6032]

We are having this problem with people down the road now have an air b and b and now those people have no respect for horses. I am thinking Holly bushes would keep people from trying to feed the horses. 😉Maybe a variety of them or some Barberry mixed in too.

[@arielleritchie2011]

I’d be planting stinging nettle and barberry! Stinging nettle is obviously herbaceous but it would give extra protection in the summer months when there’s probably more foot traffic there :)

[@heatherw.2751]

This subject has been heavy on my mind since the wooded land that butts up to my property just got sold and clear cut. 13 acres of beautiful, untouched forest now completely gone! I’m trying to decide what combo of evergreen and deciduous things to plant for privacy. Once I got over the starkness of it all, I started to look at it as an opportunity. Here’s hoping I can pull it off! 🤞🏻

[@katiekane5247]

My heart aches for you, I've had that happen 😢 Best of luck in your endeavors, pray the developer plants fat enough off the line if they've put a screen in their plan. When that happened to me, it changed the drainage substantially.

[@sherriianiro747]

​@@katiekane5247Here too! We never had flooding until wood chips were added in excessive amounts killing trees over here not to mention the decline of birds and wildlife!

[@ruralangwin]

Heartbreaking. What shitty conservation regulations in your community. Very sad and terrible for planet earth.

[@heatherw.2751]

@@katiekane5247 I’m super lucky that it’s a single family purchaser, not a developer! Nevertheless, my privacy was chopped completely down. I am extremely thankful because I know it could’ve been way worse. Still, I’m going to plant a screening bed back there. Sorry you had a developer do that to you!!!

[@heatherw.2751]

@@sherriianiro747 I’m sorry that happened to you! I’m so thankful to say it was a single owner that bought the land so I won’t have to deal with too much development . But there is a water shed creek that runs back there. I’ve talked to the new owner and he assured me he will preserve the proper drainage. Here’s hoping he keeps his word as my property has never flooded! 🙏🏻

[@BlairBrown-Missablairica]

Thank you! You have no idea how perfectly timed you are with this topic based on all the yard work I did at my mom’s house today! And I’m sending her this video to further support the logic of mixing and matching privacy plants and also not plopping in any green giant in the spot where I took down some fencing today. Perfect!

[@julieh2935]

If Jim recommends it, plant it! I’ve planted lots of the shrubs he’s recommended and they are all doing great and growing fast! Thanks, Jim!

[@passepartoot]

A mixed border of large, shrubs is also a GREAT way to attract songbirds to your yard. That, and a few large water dishes.Benefits? Insect control, birdsong, and the minute-by-minute flashes of color.

[@BigGary79]

My favorite part of my landscape is my 100+ yard screen along one of my fence lines. It's added so much character to the property. I've used green giants, blue point junipers, Nellie Stevens holly, Oakland holly, Carolina Midnight loropetalum, Olive Martini Elaeagnus, Blue Ice and Blue Steel Arizona Cypress, Chindo Viburnaum, etc... This channel has been a huge inspiration and excellent source of information.

[@gracepeterson7483]

Dang, that Loropetalum is nice. 💚

[@DeAnne9743]

I have a border on one side of the yard with a row of green giants. I did it when i was just starting out as a gardener. After 18 years, it is still looking glorious (knock on wood). That being said, i do wish i had gone with a variety of shrubs, it's kind of boring😂 thankfully i didn't do it on all sides of the yard. OH zone 6a

[@scallywags12]

I have a mix of lilacs, mock Orange, spiraea and witch hazel with tall perennials along one border to screen our neighbour.

[@ruralangwin]

This sounds magical!

[@Peoniesandpinks]

I have learned so much from you over the last two years since I began following you. Mixing your screenings was the first change I made two years ago because of your advice. My beds are still evolving too.

[@katieking6845]

Everyone deserves a private backyard

[@mooreacrestxgardenening4979]

We had photinia's planted front to back on our property. Very prone to disease in our area. Several years ago they all had to be removed. We did it ourselves, but what a job.

[@shellye.rawlins8587]

I am so glad to have found you. I live in the High Desert area of California. We can have some pretty cold windy winters, but the super hot windy summers. We have an acre of land we want to screen the back and sides of our property, but are struggling with what plants to use. Our soil is not just sandy/clay, it lacks nutrients, so we have started composting to enrich the soil. We have been successful raised beds for our gardens.

[@katiekane5247]

Try to find people doing native plants in your area. They are the hardiest with less maintenance

[@robynwalters6083]

I’m so glad I’ve come across the idea of a mixed screening border. I hadn’t heard of it before and we have this strip of front yard that butts up against the road that we pulled wild overgrown junipers

[@gardentherapySOS]

I'm guilty of planting a long row of Leyland cypresses. 3rd year in and not loving the growth habit. Thank you for such an informative video! Just wish I'd seen it 3 years ago!

[@BethHarwell]

I did the same thing in 1996 at the house I owned in NC, zone 7. The side was a row of Leyland Cypress and the back was Ligustrum. Sigh. Before I left in 2005, some of the Leyland Cypress had already fallen or gotten bag worms.

[@nagrabagra4924]

I love your idea about mixing plant varieties for a screen. I just bought 2 sunshine Ligustrum for 3 dollars a piece and am waiting to plant them. My problem is sunlight...or the lack of it. Our neighbor has woods next to us that block a lot of sun, so I'm begging my H to cut some of the trees that are around our house, in favor of these bushes that will block noise from the road and give privacy. He's resisted until now because we had some severe storms hit last month within 11 days apart where a tree next to the house was struck by lightning and another behind the house was blown down after a month of a lot of rain that loosened up the clay, then high winds hit and down it came. Thankfully it missed everything of any importance, which was a miracle. The tree struck by lightning we had cut down last week. The damage to it was bad. But we have several more trees to go and it's not cheap to pay someone to cut them down. I guess this is the only way to make a more open space in order to plant useful bushes that will actually serve our purpose rather than pose a threat of falling on our home or other buildings that we rely on. TY for the great videos, I will be watching this one again to take notes on the varieties that you mentioned.

[@edwardmorton7246]

I planted Oakland Hollys after watching you talk about them.

[@sherylemoore8626]

Mono culture is never a good idea. Thank you for such an informative and idea filled video. I have planted 5 Carolina Sapphire Arizona Cypress in a s-configuration to provide a screen and protection for my chicken/duck coop. I have started to plant other small trees and shrubs in front of the Cypress to provide interest and a more natural look. I love the Cypress trees and the poultry approve!

[@gracefulgrowing144]

I have one neighbor across the alley from me and they have an upstairs window that I definitely want to hide the view. I have been looking at options so this video came in a perfect time.I believe I'm only going to need 1 or 2 to cover that window as I have a 6 foot wood privacy fence and you can't see anything else from any of my neighbors all the way around me except for that 1 window.❤❤

[@katiel8725]

Where I live in the Chicago burbs, it seems everyone uses those rows of giant arborvitae...I think that look doesn't work unless you live in an Italian villa. It's so unnatural looking. Plus when they get too tall and too crowded you have to take them out anyway. It's much better to have a naturalistic and varied planting that will last.

[@missdeeva2266]

We only had to screen one side of our backyard. Behind us is owned by the railroad so no neighbors but on the one side we did screen the neighbors who are CRAZY and parade around in the buff😡 we started with a 6' fence then added schip laurels and a couple Carolina Sapphire trees. The two trees screen where they spend most of their time outside🙃 we have been able to sheer those trees 1x a yr into a nice looking Christmas tree shape but we realize at some point we won't be able to (these trees grow FAST) Going to enjoy these trees even with knowing they will get large quickly and cut back when needed. The laurels are very manageable at 8' tall which is where they are now. We did the extra space like you noted of 7 feet cause I do plan to step down that area😊

[@juliabinford6500]

Great hedge advice!! I like when things aren’t just lined up. The height variation is beautiful too. I have shade, so I use arbs, yew, boxwood, eunymous, japanese holly, and Japanese maples in ground and containers here in the Pacific Northwest zone 8b

[@karenmorse7031]

Perfect timing with this video, thanks!! We have a line of trees (mostly cedar and cypress) that are bald at the bottom and are next to a relatively busy road. This is exactly what I want to add for privacy

[@davidsanderlin2895]

Jim - Thank you! This is a great video! I have neighbors that have a sterile looking yard of only overfertilized green grass with nothing else. They look directly into my yard and back door. This has given me exactly the info I needed. I love your mixed shrub arrangement. Your pointers on spacing and avoiding a straight line of the same plant and those to avoid has been a great help. I’m a single working mom with a very limited income and you have given me this great gift of information and your yard as an example. You made my day. 🎉

[@catherineunrau3513]

Zone 5b gardener in Southern Ontario, Canada. I remember hearing your advice on mixed shrub screening plants before I started planting along a neighbour's chainlink fence last year. I tried to plant a mix of evergreens and taller shrubs that provide different seasons of interest. I added Rose of Sharon, Lilac, Miscanthus Giganteus, Yellow Ribbon Cedar, Blue Arrow Juniper, Instant Karma and Black Lace Elderberry. I would like to add 2 more narrow evergreens to provide a bit more structure to the winter garden. Thank you for always providing such knowledgeable advice!

[@sherriianiro747]

I bet it looks really nice!

[@kcurran53]

I have a green screen in the summer(6b)of redbuds, forsythia, mock orange, and trees further out, and some volunteer rose of sharon; but I am working on conifers to screen the OBNOXIOUS giant lights all my neighbors put in, which happens to hit at eye level, including a light that comes on whenever a car passes. I live in the country with creeks on the edge of the property, so I just mixed up a few thuja, leyland, white pines, and am planning the shrubs now. (Yeah, they will get big, but I plan to shear to stop some of that, and they are near the wooded line also.) I have some hydrangea, weiglia, azalea, small dogwood, rhodies, deutzia, Karl Foerster, and some vines so far. LOVE the advice!

[@dawnb7457]

I appreciate your input Jim. Have been using Sunshine Ligustrum, Boxwoods and Encore Azaleas...trying to mix things up and provide winter interest and protection for my deciduous shrubs. It's a learning process...ever changing as things work or don't work out. Am in NW Arkansas Zone 6b. We have hot summers, but sometimes a freak cold snap in winter that can be very hard on our shrubs...especially hollies...they took a big hit last year.

[@kathrynmettelka7216]

Monoculture invites disaster eventually. I like Little Gem magnolias for their narrow structure and blooms. Chinese Snowball viburnum blooms too with a different architecture. Some roses make wonderful screens and thorny ones can provide burglar protection. Remember always to plant what gives you pleasure.

[@joanncooper9146]

You have so much good advice, I’m happy to see so many people following along. It took me decades of painful trial and error to learn a lot of this, and even now I pick up so much new information from your videos. Truly a goldmine. My lot is very small - think oversized postage stamp. I’ve used small trees or large shrubs trimmed up into trees for taller screening ( weeping holly, pineapple guava, palms, purple loropetalum, crape myrtle, and loquat). Those are under planted with shade loving shrubs (azalea, smaller loropetalum, aucuba, mahonia (big favorite!), dwarf nandina) and various ground covers tucked around those (ajuga, carex, lots of different aspidistra, liriope (Aztec and Munroe White), autumn and holly ferns. Mostly basic, easy care things as I want the outer borders to always look presentable from the street. I’m currently struggling to add dyopteris sieboldii. Tony Avent says it’s an easy fern. I’ve managed to kill three. 😢

[@maryanne2666]

Great video! Zone 5 New England with lots of deer leaves few options, so I’d love to hear other viewers zone 5 successes. Juniper, Green Giant western arbs, Inkberry if the screen doesn’t need to be too tall. That said, we’ve had deer even eat juniper on occasion. With all the deer and in recent years rabbits, the plant palate has gotten very slim :(

[@ruralangwin]

We just planted a ever green Dogwood. Mountain Moon I think!

[@katieking6845]

Impressed with Carolina sapphire only thing that grew fast

[@s.barlow7062]

Thank you for the suggestions. Just getting started creating a privacy wall. Will share details later.

[@jspearm1983]

I am loving watching your video, learning how to create a mix plant privacy screen. It would be great if there was a video that explained which privacy plants will thin out at the bottom when they mature (losing the privacy the owner was seeking), vs the plants that will retain growth all the way to ground level.

[@SparrowMom]

I love native wax myrtles for a fast growing screen, but you definitely need to have a large space for those. For narrower spaces, I love tea olives. I'm currently creating a screen in my sideyard and I've so far used a little gem magnolia, wax myrtle, loropetalum, and sunshine ligustrum. I also added an eastern redbud, simply because I just love them. I'll place lower shrubs below it once it gets more established and I can see how much sun the area will get.

[@kso808]

I used to have a burning bush euonymous hedge between one of my neighbors and myself. I had to perform rejuvenation on them by cutting them back severely back in February, because they were way overgrown. Not much regrowth yet this year. Speaking of vines, I had to replace my 30 year old metal trellis, which was destroyed by the remnants of Ophelia last weekend. I had a massive Carolina jessamine growing on it. Just bought some decorative trellis pieces today to replace it.

[@waynem.7226]

Some screening plants I've used recently were northern white cedar, n.s. holly, sweetbay magnolia, arctic blue willow 'nana', 'winter red' winterberry and golden vicary privet. Still on the list to get are techny arborvitae, blue arrow juniper and dee runk boxwood. Not all are evergreen, but it still makes for a good mix to me.

[@debbieeckels25]

Thanks Jim for your beautiful border. I have neighbors who live a little above me who have an above ground pool. They have to climb up a ladder to get in it. Then they look in my backyard & in my windows. I’ve been looking for some way to screen their view. I don’t want Arborvitae for the reasons you mentioned. Your perspective has been helpful. I wanted evergreen plants. Debbie

[@trinityloewen8141]

Love this video as I will be screening part of my backyard when the pool goes in. I really like my Skip Laurel.

[@cordsen_L]

Junipers: Taylor, Wichita blue, and Sky Rocket.

[@theresabarham8778]

Makes so much sense! Appreciate so very much the practical content you provide!

[@saracreed3443]

Wonderful timing as I’m plotting on a new screening hedge. There are already some trees in place, oak and pine mostly, but I need to fill in around them. I’m considering old fashioned azaleas, camellia sasanqua and perhaps illicium. It’s fairly shady already so I’m a bit limited. Maybe I can sneak a redbud tree in there

[@MelindaBrooks-vj3fr]

Hey Jim. I love the Tea Olive. I call it my bird hotel and it has the best smell ever!

[@ericadavenport2039]

Through some exhausting research, I've picked Japanese Cleyera, fortune tea olive, fragrant tea olive, and forest green anise for my hedge row. They're growing slower than I'd like. About 6" in 2-3 years.

[@inspiredtosoar3526]

I’ve planted 3 fortune osthmanthus, 3 baby needle point holly, 1 copper top sweet viburnum. 1 Arizona cypress, 3 Robin Holly, 1 recurve ligustrum, all baby plants & clearance larger ones💜 I still need more but working on preparing the next beds. I look at Jim’s yard & want to buy more plants😂 but really want them all to be grown in nicely faster😂

[@ericadavenport2039]

@@inspiredtosoar3526 You've got a really great selection! I bet it looks gorgeous.

[@inspiredtosoar3526]

@@ericadavenport2039 thanks, you as well! In time when everything is filled it as a screen it will be better. Good things come to those who wait

[@TheAndreawixson]

Can you please be cloned to cover lower zones 😂 You are such a fantastic resource! We have been in our home over 20 years and about 100 yards south 2 enormous warehouse type buildings are going up. They are rather tall and we can see them from every outside spot of our property. We have been working so hard to create beautiful gardens. So bummed out. Anyway, glad I saw this because we were looking at putting in an Arborvitae “soldiers” screen. We will be reevaluating. Thanks!! Utah zone 6b

[@daiseegray9110]

Great info as always! Thanks Jim & Steph!

[@debandrews7415]

Always learn from you. Thx

[@denisewax5396]

Great advice, thanks😊

[@rebeccawoods4488]

Such great insights and ides! Thank you!

[@judymckerrow6720]

Thank you Jim. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@katieking6845]

You're helping the birds

[@ellerob7292]

What an educational video, Jim. Thanks so much!

[@jennifergreene8891]

Thank you Jim for another great informative video!

[@sixtyplus1839]

This particular video is so timely for me, and like all of your videos full of useful and accurate information. I'm in a higher zone than Raleigh so I've worked a couple of varieties of clumping bamboo into my screen. I like the vibe it creates.

[@bstlaur4567]

Great info!

[@jeanrothman8516]

I love this!!! I will be watching this over and over and I will buy some of these plants! Right up my alley!!!

[@jumprope04]

Thank you! Such great encouragement and inspiration on this topic and ideas of layering, variety, tall trellises, etc. It’s our #1 priority for our serenity. We’re in 7a Tx panhandle with occasional Arctic blasts, snow & ice in winter and 100+ drought through summer. Challenging! Slowly finding plants and solutions. 😅😂

[@katieking6845]

Been obsessed with dahlias they xame back

[@judymckerrow6720]

Sage advice Kemosabe. 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@manda6898]

Can you do a video on shade evergreens?

[@ScottIsMyName]

I had around 100' of Green Giants. Old age, two ice storms later, a few heavy wind events, and bag worms later, the entire line was decimated.

[@mickobrien3156]

Great site! REQUEST: Can you make a Top 10 list about evergreen screen plants, focusing on SOUND muffling ability as the priority over all other features? I prefer broadleaf evergreens, but conifers are probably best for this. I'd just love to know the best screening plants that 1. Block sound especially well 2. Grow fast (up to 2 stories, or able to block/screen a typical house) I live near a train track. So... this would really help. Instead of planting a row of screening plants on the edge of my property... I want to plant a sound screen very close to my house, at least all along one side of it. So they'd be close to my house, as opposed to privacy screens, which usually people have at the edges of their property. I'm sure many viewers of your site would also love to know the best screen plants for sound killing. Maybe they live near a noisy road, or whatever. But it's a issue many of us deal with and there is not much on this. Thank you for your time. PS: Of course I don't expect you to run out and make this video... just a suggestion.

[@asaliden4584]

Yesss! That’s my plan to stop my neighbor to take pictures of me and my dogs on MY TERRACE. They have three windows, small, larger, small and arborvitae 2,3,2 covering their windows, between them I have a mix of wintergreens, trellises with climbers, but also deciduous trees and bushes because it’s spring, summer, fall my neighbors are a pain in the….. and I live in Sweden comparable with Us zone 6a so I haven’t got so many options. I’m thinking red, yellow, green and blue as Laura at Garden Answer uses trees, bushes, perennials just by foliage. One bush I’m obsessed with is ‘Rubus Cockburnianus,’ Golden vale. First it was the name. But then the golden yellow foliage and bright white thorny stems making it a both summer and winter interest bush.

[@loracharis6814]

Pittosporum is my favourite screening plant. I also like oleanders.

[@susanaustin6353]

Going to use some cryptomeria one or 2, chino viburnum, tea tree olive, ligustrum and Nellie Stevens Holly to create a screen. So I’m going to have them layered them like you said and on drip. It is a low area on a hill on that side of my house and their house is up soooo much higher, so we get to see all their stuff that should be in their garage from my kitchen window and when we sit at our table to eat!!! Annoying as I have worked hard to keep a natural area on that side whereas they came in and took down all their trees; thus the open space now. We have hardwoods on our acre lot…woods on either side (except in this particular area) with our house in the middle with a nice swath of lawn in the back. Was great for my son to kick his soccer ball around on! We have a lot of space in that area to work in so feel I can try to create a design with my landscaper to hide their stuff. Fingers crossed!! Our former neighbors that used to live there were good caretakers of their yard. Your video came at the most opportune time for me and I am grateful.

[@katieking6845]

Cruptomeria only thing I keep buying and it turns brown and dies in zone 8😢

[@kat.5822]

​@@katieking6845Thanks for your input. We were considering cryptomeria next to our garden bed but was afraid of it dying too. We are also in zone 8a. You saved us some time and money.

[@katieking6845]

@@kat.5822 im trying a radicans / now my last try 😂

[@katieking6845]

@@kat.5822 they seem to be alive in town in full sun on hills hillsspots / chapel view all died

[@carlas872]

I love the sunshine ligustrum. I'm in zone 6a and mine dies back to the ground each winter so it doesn't get as big as yours. Still love the color! We have a lot of native shrubs and trees that are on either side of our property that make great screening for our one acre lot. I need to go in and selectively remove some of them because they are overcrowding each other. Wish you were here to help me do that. 🙂

[@dylan8285]

Here in the north its really hard if you dont have space like in these new neighborhoods to use anything besides arbs or junipers. Since our other options are pines,spruces,firs, hemlock and they all take alot of space and dont grow very fast. Theres plenty of deciduous shurbs but if theres something you really dont want to look at even in winter. Of course deer is more of an issue with deciduous things too

[@toxicmale2264]

I am using three rose of sharons, one eastern viburnum, one elderberry, and one red tip photinia to block out my future neighbors.

[@suzetterobinson9442]

In the frozen Northern Midwest, we use Rose of Sharon, Lilac, Cedar, Grasses, Viburnum, Forsythia, Honeysuckle, Jerusalem Artichoke, and bushes like Blueberry, Aronia, Wiegalia, and Elderberry. Hops, clematis and grapes work very well on fencing or trellising. Wisteria if it can be controlled, we found our neighbors wisteria could not. I'm planning on adding some clumping bamboo in one difficult spot. Also our deciduous trees work well on tall or long-view slopes - Oak, Poplar, Aspen, Caltapa (sp?). Almost none of this is evergreen. We have to layer and in Winter we just have to deal with seeing our neighbors.

[@laurieforare2386]

Neighbor cleared right on the property borderline. I need plant ideas that can take full shade, and more importantly keep their leaves during the winter. Zone 8b Havana Florida

[@katieking6845]

Obsessed witb bottlebrush

[@TaraSwiger1]

This is perfect timing! We had an estimate on a wood privacy and…whew! Now planning a mixed border between us and our neighbor, my problem is that it’s in full shade (in Zone 7b, East TN). There are several tall trees around it, and at most it gets 1-2 hours of dappled sunlight. Any suggestions?

[@marshawilliamson8602]

Same issue for me with the added conundrum of our lot being lower in elevation. 7b, North Atlanta🌸🐝

[@waterdd1]

Following

[@mariasmith6438]

Camellia, aucuba, cephelotaxus harringtonia are what I have used in a shaded screening situation. Jim has several other screening plant videos that you could watch for more suggestions.

[@paulalewis9326]

Me too. I have high shade , but noticed last year that during the winter it looked as if the neighbors garage was sitting in our backyard. We are 7b outside Memphis.

[@vbachman6742]

​​​@@paulalewis9326 Me too. I'm smack in the middle of Midtown Memphis with a very narrow space (6 feet!) between the north side of my 2 story house and the 7 foot fence beside my neighbor's driveway. His house is also 2 story so without some screening we can look into each other's windows on both floors unless shades are drawn. Old houses were built closer together than some newer ones. This area is in almost total shade all day in all seasons. I'm researching possible solutions now for planting in the spring. I'll definitely look for Jim's recommendations and may sign up for a consultation if I'm still confused in another week or so.

[@RichardGilbert2727]

The previous owner left us with big old Leland cypress along our drive access to the back yard. They are thinning, wide, and tall. I wish I could replace them with red series/oakleaf hollies or a mix. I could but, as you note, they'll be expensive to replace en mass!

[@kurtpjxhmac20]

We had leylandii and they became thin at the bottom and fell over 😂 I didn’t plant them, they were already here but were a disaster, even years later the roots are still there

[@judymckerrow6720]

I think it’s a great idea to revisit some of your earlier videos. Not everyone has been with you from the start AND I think people don’t want to sort through older videos to find the answers they’re looking for. I know I find it frustrating sometimes. Just a thought? 🍁🍂🍁💚🙃

[@kaiesping2326]

I’m a recent subscriber. Been using playlists to watch older videos

[@bonniejackson7476]

I have some red cedars that I transplanted from our previous home in Wilmington. They were vey small and have lived in pots for several years now. These are generally found dining semi wooded areas there. Should I replicate this in planting them here in Sampson County? Thanks

[@TheHobbyHomesteader556]

I'm an Aussie now living in zone 7b and am looking for ideas of good tree ideas to line a driveway thats a few hundred foot long and I'd love to create a canopy over the road itself, but i am not terribly familiar with Northern Hemisphere trees

[@emilyg4603]

Luckily living somewhere that is too cold for leafy evergreens also often means you don't need as much screening in the winter because it's too cold to be out in the yard.

[@ManoloVintage]

I just planted two trees that the tag said takes full sun, but the full sun I have is nuclear, and I'm worried about the trees. I have either no sun or nuclear sun on my property. I planted a Heritage River Birch tree, which is a 15' tall baby. I also planted a coral bark Japanese maple, which is 8' tall right now. My ever greens got sun burnt last month. Is there anything I can do to protect the trees?

[@katieking6845]

Yes screen for peace / added Spanish moss for sound but in a prison

[@gloriamathews3035]

Can a lemon cypress be cut trim stay small?

[@danathomas9763]

Working on a plan now to create border with wax myrtle, yaupon holly, and Nellie R. Stevens holly. Rethinking the Nellie R. As they took a beating this summer in the Central Texas drought and heat. Would like a suggestion for something a little faster growing than yaupon. (We live in a rural area on two acres with heavy deer pressure…and very alkaline soil.)

[@mooreacrestxgardenening4979]

My sister had a row of Nellie R Steven's really suffer in DFW area this year. She wasn't sure if it was an issue isolated to her shrubs. They are 20 years old and never have suffered like this before.

[@danathomas9763]

@@mooreacrestxgardenening4979 Mine are 3 years old; I did loose some 12+ year old regular Hollie’s. Sad year for sure!

[@JC-nc9rt]

What do you think about using texas sage in screening borders in zone 8a north texas? Would this be best planted in fall or spring?

[@4watchingvideos414]

Before y’all consider planting boxwoods, look up boxwood blight. I inherited a yard full of dying shrubs at my new home. It’s spreading rapidly, so I suggest avoiding them if you can.

[@JimPutnam]

Better Boxwood is coming to stores this spring. We will be talking about in a few weeks

[@BarbaraSchooley]

I am in zone seven a in Nashville do you remove bulbs from pots after the leaves have turned brown or can you leave them in the pots for the remaining year such as crocus and Muscari and tulips? The squirrels and chipmunks and Nashville are voracious.

[@johnwilcox4534]

What is the name of the loropetalum behind the ligustrum with the "almost red" flowers?

[@JD-qf6zl]

Evergreen Chindo viburnum deer resistant, camellia sassanqua deer resistant

[@GRANTKEEL]

What would you suggest for about an 80 yard long section that I need to screen off? I have a neighbor set about 100 yards diagonally behind my house. Great people, just would like a little more privacy while on my back porch. Would need to be at least 20 feet high. Zone 9

[@TheGeorgiaMediaGroup]

Bamboo. Be good too

[@dp807]

Jim, do you work on consultations for zone 8b/9 in California? I just signed up for your site and really need help. I hope you see this. I could not find a contact me on your website to ask, so I am posting here. Blessings and thank you for sharing all of your knowledge and great videos. They are really inspiring me!

[@roseblaszak3569]

I have a chestnut tree near the end of our property close to the road and wanted to plant some bushes nearby but nothing seems to grow there. Close by it is a pecan tree and I dont have the same issue.. Do you know if the problem is the chestnut or maybe other issues like poor soil, fungus, etc.?

[@LULC0759]

I’m on new 2 acres. We have planted over 60 trees and nearly that many shrubs. Since our lots are narrow (150’ w) but deep I want to block the neighbors, whom all want swimming pools. I came to the country for quiet, private spaces.😞 so since we only have a 5’ strip from our driveway to the neighbors property line, I planted a line of American Pillar Arborvitae’s. They get 4 or 5’ wide by 25’ tall. In my lifetime who knows🤷‍♀️I planted staggered 6 GG Arbs on the other side where I have more room. SW Ohio z 6 Do you think they thin out at the bottom more in the South? I’ve seen healthy varieties in landscaping here that are decades old. But the Pine trees I see seem sickly and thin.

[@peternyc]

Is zone 7a (southern New York) warm enough for broadleaf evergreens to be planted on the borders where the wind is strong? Would Euonymus manhattan stand up to the wind?

[@katieking6845]

Wamt to do podocarpus wall sith the moss

[@stepbystepwithkristy]

What kind of vine do you have growing on the fence? I’m trying to decide what to put on my fence to create a good barrier but not sure what will stay green all year. I’m in Clayton, NC area.

[@jillnorris8448]

It's a Bignonia or Crossvine. He has a video dedicated to it on his Garden Plants with Jim Putnam KZbin channel, if you want to check it out. 😊

[@katieking6845]

Crossvine and moss at bottom ?

[@sterlgirlceline]

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[@Flower_hoarder]

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